Omaha daily bee., 1887-07-10
HONEY FOR THE LADIES

hoNE1 FoR THE LADIES
Bustles grow smaller.
Lustrous light weight mohairs are again
used for travelling dresses
Very small Ornamental-headed pins are
much used for dress purposes.
The belted blouse waist is the style for
wash frocks in this midsummer weather.
Detachable collars and cuffs of velvet and
velvcteen are worn with wash frocks.
Two sets of velvet collars and cuffs can be
worn with any number OF wash frocks.
Twenty American women have pictures
on exhibition at the Paris Salon this season.
The immense variety in parasols is one of
the prettiest features OF this seasons fash
ions.
White dress fabrics of all kinds, but es-
pecially white wash goods, are in demand
just now.
The favorite pin and brooch of the Partisan
woman is ornamentea with one or several
dogs heads
A frock of brick-red and white stripes worn
its wearer.
Even the gauntlets of long gloves are do
ted and barred in some cases to match the
toilet this season.
Small bonnets and tiny togues and turbans
and very large Drectoire hats are the favor
ties IN millinery this season.
Two colors that actually swear at each
other when worn in the same toilet in this
hot weather are heliOtrope and red.
An Ohio girl claims to have gone three
weeks without eating anything. she prob
ably doesn't call ice-cream anything.
The Partisan safety pin for dressv pur-
poses has pearls, crystal, amber, coral and
other beads strung on its connecting wire,
Prevalent eXtravagance, if not nonsense, is
shown in the newest tennis racquets. which
have the handles inlald with pearl. silver and
gold.
Tho doy,a haod ,nd acnoo,oII,, tbo ,,ur ts
the favorite decoration in boudoir bric-abrac
and. dress accessories at the moment in
Paris.
Ornamental lamps, made entirely of glass;
and mounted on stand OF imitation marble,
are seen and appropriately referred to as the
latest thing out.
Some Washington ladies have introduced
the fashion OF wearing rings on their thumbs.
and each, of course, thinks herself thuTbody
in consequence.
new size in fashionable note paper and
envelopes is perfectly square. of an unusu-
ally heavy quality. and the note sheet does
not require fold.
Mrs. Shaw, an Indiana woman, is making
q fortune out of duStpan. She thought as
sho worked, and her bright idea is turning
into bright dollars.
According to the season, pug or poodle
dogs, wearing silver collars ana foot orna-
ments are the ,"nvair.iable companions of
grand Parisian ladies'"
of feathers and tnsel with tiny jeweled eyes
and penciled wings, are pretty worn in the
hair on dressy occasions.
Large flats Of lace, white and cream col
ored, made up of lace tioupces over white
millinet frames, make the coolest and most
becoming of all summer hats.
A Philadelphia firm makes a practice of
giving an excellent lace cap, trimmed with
lavender ribbons, on which are embroidered
the words, "Ones Hundred Years." to each
woman in the state who lives to celebrate her
Tooth birthday. The last recipient of the cap
was Mrs. Mary Bruner, of Derry, who was
born May II, 1877.
"Oh, Miss" said lovesick swain, If were
but yon bri hit star, how brightly would |
shine for YOU" What a pity" she said
muslngly. that you can't shine here. He
went out directly.
Miss Maud Mattel has lust been elected
member of the Royal Society of Painters in
Water Colors. She had several pictures in
the present exhibition of the Society of Lady
Artists in London.
1t is the fashion now for society women to
dabble in literature. Mrs. Potter Palmer is
the latest recruit 10 the ranks. She read a
paper on "Some of the Tendencies of Mod
ern !Culture"at the lastmeeting of the Chicago
Friday club.
There is an old lady in Georgia who will
never send , one of her daughters to Vassar
an jockey hats" she saws, "wOmen is nigh
enough like men now, 'thout maxim bache-
lOrS OF EN-"
Young man Ito messenger boy)-What did
the young lady say when you gave her the
flowers? Messenger boy-She asked the
young feller who was sittin' on the porch
with her If he didn't want some for button
hole bouquet
A New York girl has given jeweler an
order for silver belt in links. Instead of
Roman medaliOns on the linked plates, how
ever, she wants the features of some Other
young, male friends cut in bas'relief and has
furnished the photographs.
An experienced camper-out advises as Ia
dies costumes for camp life, short flannel
dresses, with warm jackets, heavy shawls,
broad -brmmed hats: rubber circulars, coats
and shoes, bathing dresses, shOe-b bags, hoods,
and flannel wrappers to sleep in.
There is quite an effort to popularlze leg
of-mutton and bishops sleeves, but the
| tight coat sleeve, in one or another form,
holds, holds its place among fashionable and
| questionable people, but nowadays 1t is
not tight, but loose above the elbow.
The st. Paul Globe relates that two girls
and during the night one of them got up
while her companion slept and with q pair
| of scissors clipped all the hair from the head
| of the other girl. 1t was mean piece of re-
venge,
Says the New York Tribune: So many
ladies now want to ride on the outside seats
| of the Fifth avenue stages on pleasant even
| ings that 1t is impossible to accommodate
them all. Many of the ladies who are for
| tunate enough to secure the coveted seats
ride up and down the avenue two or three
| times, much to the dis. .ust of others who are
| waiting along the line for vacant seat. The
| company have provided ladder for the ac-
commodation Of ladies' at Fifty-ninth street
and at Ninth street, but many of the ladies
| scorn to use them, preferring to mount just
| like men, aided, OF course, by their escorts
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